UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the Univer- city of Kansas
Edwin W. Hullinger..Editor-in-Chi
William Koester..News Editi
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The Daily Kansan aims to picture the university of Kansas; to go further than merely printing the name of Kansas; to go further at the University holds; to play no favorites; to be clean; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be courteous; to solve problems to wiser heads; in all, to realize that university students of the University.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1916
PROGRESS
THE PADDLE OR EFFEMINACY?
Some falls are means the happier to rise.—Shakepeare.
THE PADDLE OR EFFEMINACY To paddle or not to paddle—bromidically speaking—is the question.
"Have upperclassmen and sophomores a right to exercise physical force upon a freshman? Is this not brutal? Does it not trend to lower the spirit of the freshman and the reputation of the institution?" Thusly query the anti-paddlers.
Since early times it has been customary for the neophite, upon entering a new social unit, to submit to regulation by persons already on the ground until by continued residence he shall become familiar with local conditions and capable of sharing in the government. This is a rule of society. It is practically invariable. And a student body, society of students, would be a sociological freak did not it exact this.
Force is the universal antidote for unwillingness to comply with established law. And it is punishment of the individual by the many, not punishment of the one by another of equal strength and size, as "true sportsmanship would dictate."
Further, if a man hasn't enough grit to stand a little physical punishment without whimpering, we might add that he is anything but fitted for the battle of life.
Is paddling brutal? If the form of paddling practised on Mount Oread is brutal, then football, wrestling, and boxing above all (all of which are taught at K. U.) are beastial brutality to the nth power. Beside them, paddling is child's play.
Society needs men with sand.
Will paddling lower the spirit of freshmen?
If a man's spirit is so fragile that a touch of the paddle will crush it, if the sight of a crowd of men will send him scampering down the Hill, if terror of a mild chastisement for violation of an admitted rule will cause him to "absent himself from classes" —well, all we can say is this kind of a man is too much of a sissy for K. U.
And if the new-arival be suffering from self-inflation, why the sooner the bubble is burst the better. Pride goeth before the paddle.
The assertion that freshmen are frequently paddled to make sport for upperclassmen is untrue. Instances of this nature are as rare as they are condemnable. The freshman is given a show. He generally is dealt with justly. The spirit of fair play is too strong in the American college man to tolerate anything else. More than one freshman has gone Scot free upon demonstration of his innocence.
And does paddler lower the reputation of the University?
Is scuffing and sparring lowrow? Does the layman think less of a bunch
of young men whom he sees giving vent to their healthy appetites for physical rivalry? Isn't he, on the other hand, inclined to consider it a symptom of morbidity if he sees a group of young fellows continually marching up and down a University campus a la lady-like? Isn't he apt to wonder what's wrong?
We might venture to ask, how many students—out of the two thousand and men on the Hill—have actually been sent through the gaudetley? The "long-suffering-freshman" is a phrase of mythology, not actuality.
Paddling is not carried too far.
It is merely the healthy expression of a healthy spirit of virility—physical virility—for which the American college man is famous, and rightly so.
The Kansas is opposed to any attempt to effeminate (or fossilize) the University.
An eastern newspaper quotes a shoe manufacturer who predicts thirty-dollar shoes. Students here can be thankful that there is a wood-working class over in Fowler that can turn out the Dutch Article in a pinch.
ADVENTURES
The whole world longs for adventure. The small boy seeks it when he reads of cowboys and detectives, of treasure islands and trips to far lands. It is adventure of which the youth or maiden dreams when he or she goes to try for luck in the great city.
That is the spirit of youth. But it does not mean that one always must go to new or strange places to find adventures. Every morning as we climb Mt. Oread we may find new friends or learn new qualities in old ones, or we may an undiscovered country in our books or courses, our professors, if we only will.
Don't miss the events on the hill; don't give up the things which make University life so pleasant by saying, "Don't think I'll go. Don't see any fun in that." Why, at each rally, each game there may be waiting just for us, the best and most pleasant adventure of all.
LITTLE THINGS THAT
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT
On cold morning as one of the University women, heavily laden with books, was approaching one of the west entrances of Fraser Hall, a building where the same entrance was seen to hasten and pass this woman in order that he might open the door in the place of following her in without scarcely touching the door.
LEVITY WITH THE GRIND
THERE'S A LIMIT
Lord, make dis niggham humble, but not so humble dat when a man in a motah car runs ovah me, and knocks me down. I'll get up and brush off de dust and 'poliise for gett'in in de way.—Kansas City Star.
'TWAS EVER THUS
Some of us who went to Purdue did not know the score until the next morning and then we didn't care.—Tweedledums.
(Heard at Lincoln after the game)
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: I've lost my
ten."
Is there anything to equal the effect produced by seeing the five-pound box of candy you bought in payment of that debt being eaten by the other fellow—as you pass by on the outside lookin' in?
In the latest division of modern society, women are more likely to be mages are merely persons who get run over by men.
Poor Richard's Almanac a la Jayhawk
When a woman wits an argument
that she has to deal with
nature did not endow her with
logic.
The girl's "yes" need not be spoken
The eyes have it.
Pride is always too big for its shoe and not large enough for its hal.
A good job soon gets a divorce from a bad man.
Man was created first, but woman came a second after attack him how much?
Engaged young people should re-
locate engagement result in only fifteen per
year.
A man's battle in life depends largely upon his first engagement.
A lawn-tennis mind cannot appreciate a football soul.
Many an inspiring young poet is convinced that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of an needle than a rider to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Pecks of troubles come in pint bottles.
In the absence of ideal men the market for real men continues active.
It has required much more time to find the right font, and even then it has for him to silly down the font.
Experience is a good teacher, but charges like a specialist.
POET'S CORNER
"AUTUMN" By Mabel Elmore
There's a pungent twang in the mourn-
From the first frost's silver haze
There's a feeling of strength, when man longs to do,
We've toiled in the harvests of summer,
and joyed in the spring's sweet
We've lived for the glorious hour.
that fall Fill the night with their smelly
shower;
But in the golden haze of the autumn
from the best frosty silver maze
When the blue-days call, and the leaves
come out.
for the fruit, so forths the past,
For the fruit of earth, calls out the
*worth.*
That is hid in every heart.
Then welcome to Life's glorior
glorious autumn And the strength and power for
stripe.
For the teacher's cold, when we are old
Is warmed by a well spent life.
And the strength and power to
strife,
ON COLLEGE ACTIVITIES
Few are the University students who find themselves until after their first year. Freshmen are unacquainted to their new freedom; they fail to understand how to make the best of their time; they lack a true perspective and an appreciation of the values of their varied collegiate experience, found around and around, striving to fit themselves into their new environment.
Failure to realize the relative importance of student affairs and study, causes the annual havoc wrought in the freshman ranks. Those who guide the athletic destines of the Univer-sity long ago came to the realization that long ago, as they did in the athletic field. They waste no time pleading with instructors, professors, deans, for men who come under the ban of the scholarship ruling. It is because they failed to learn two months ago to stand on their own feet and to judge for themselves what is important to them. First string freshmen, failing to pass in the required number of units, have been dropped from the squad.
No man, if he is to get the most out of the University, should bury his nose in books until he becomes bleary eyed with much study. It warps the point of view. Nor is it fit that one should look on studies as an unfortunate incidental necessity to attendance at the University. All should strive to follow the "auream mediocritatem," should seek the proper balance between student and academic activities.—Californian.
LIBRARY VANDALS
The same cry of "Library vandalism"
in previous years is again arriving
It is inconceivable that the college man or woman, presumably of at least an average degree of culture and coming from an educated home, can be so far forgetful of the rights and appreciation for a work of art or literature as to mutilate it for his own selfish interests.
An editorial condemning the practice may be of little value, for the individual who can indulge in this pastime of stealing valuable books and clipping out anything that interests him, is probably thick enough of skin to smile at any shafts that may be directed at him.
But no one with any honesty or refinement of feeling can sit silently and read the statement that $600 worth of damage has been done in the Library since the opening of the year.—Ohio State Lantern.
It is only natural for the curious mind to ask the wherebouts of the old fashioned girl who applauded at a dance.
Our idea of the biggest bore is the fellow who wants to tell you why he can't pay back that four bits he borrowed from you last month.
Jayhawk Squawks
Lives of great men oft remind us-
D.Y.C.S.E.
While we are speaking of dances, now that the Men's Student Council has the power to control 'em, what are they going to do with it?
We wonder if the man who bought return tickets from Nebraska in the auto truck know now why the man should have come up in it came back on the special.
Requests of odds from the sportsmen from Mizooo seem to indicate that they believe Kansas has an inflated idea of her football ability.
The lesson of it all being that we have got the stuff to wipe up all the territory between here and Columbia in her ginger's铅 if we keep our eyes open.
Just because the Hon. Paragrapher on the Top, Dal. Cap. admits that K. U. has a first team this year is no reason Tiger may not sneak up from behind.
SIGMA CHI INITIATES SIX GIRLS
Of course, it meant the Theta Sigma
Mega.
We will wager that one small headline in the Topoca Capital a short time ago received as much attention as one of its size in the paper. It read
Just how wide open are the Jayhawk's eyes will be partly shown at the rally in the Gym tomorrow.
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